[vorbis-dev] UTF-8 in comments

[Daniel Resare]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:56:49AM -0700, volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Daniel Resare wrote:
> 
> > issues: iconv() has some portability prblems judging from the comments in
> > the glibc infopage.
> 
> What portability problems are you referring to?  Another issue to consider is
> that oggenc and ogg123 are "supposed to" compile and run on a wide variety of
> Unix-like systems, many of which do not have glibc.
> 

iconv() is a part of the XPG2 standard from X/Open, so it should be pretty
much everywhere (it's been around since 1988 according to
http://www.opengroup.org/security/secbrand.htm) The problem seems to be
that there is no minimal number of charsets to support to be conforming to
the standard, i.e. there is no guarantee that UTF-8 or even ISO-8859-1 is
supported and if it is, under what name.

/d


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